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Hey, it's the MTG Sold Weekly Podcast.

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This one covers October 26th through November 1st, 2026, and there's a lot going on,

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so let's get going.

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Space, the final frontier.

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These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise.

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It's continuing mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations

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to both ago when no one has gone before.

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Before we get into it, a quick note for anyone building tools in the Magic Space.

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MTG Sold collects a pretty large amount of sales and supply data, and I make that dataset

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available for free to people who actually want to build something with it.

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That includes sales volume, supply data, and the underlying historical data I use for

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a lot of the analysis on the show.

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I don't really advertise it.

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The documentation is just sitting there at MTG Sold.com/docs, and that's intentional.

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If you make it that far, read through it, and have an idea and want to access the data,

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shoot me an email at contact@mgsold.com.

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There's no API subscription I'm trying to sell you.

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If you're building something useful and the MTG Sold data can help, I'm generally happy

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to provide it.

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That's MTG Sold.com/docs.

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D-O-C-S.

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Patrick Stewart died this week.

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If you grew up with Star Trek, you probably grew up with Picard.

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And I don't really have anything profound to add to that.

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Thank you, Sir Patrick Stewart.

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Stewart signed the Captain Jean-Luc Picard headliner in the Star Trek set.

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Wizards printed seven signed headliner cards, fewer than 250 copies of each, and the only

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place you can pull one is a Star Trek collector booster box.

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At 4pm Eastern on October 29th, buying broke across every Star Trek product on TCG player

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at the same time.

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The Star Trek collector booster display sold 288 boxes in that one hour.

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By the end of the day, it was 567 boxes, about $287,000 across 397 separate sales.

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And none of them was bigger than 10 boxes.

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So you're not looking at one whale clearing a shelf.

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You're looking at a few hundred people making the same decision on the same afternoon.

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For the three days before that, sellers had been marking the Star Trek collector booster

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display down.

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The median asking price went from about $546 to about $503,000, all the shelf grew to $653.

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The October 29th rush cleared the whole cheap layer.

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The next day, the cheapest Star Trek collector booster display on TCG player was $573.

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And the gaming company, which had 167 boxes sitting at 484, moved every one of them to $585.

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So the news undid the markdown.

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Asking prices ended above where they started the week, but still under the roughly 605,

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the box was averaged two weeks ago.

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So this isn't a new high, and the week's average sale actually came down about 7% at $526,

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because the cheap boxes are the ones that sold.

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My guess is some mix of collectors buying into the one product that carries his signed Picard

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card, and stores pulling their cheapest listings the moment they saw the floor move.

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Those data can't tell you which, either way, if you're waiting for a $480 Star Trek collector

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booster display, that box is gone.

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Starting this week, our total count every sale we track.

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Until now, they only included products selling at least 20 units in both that week and the

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week before, which left out a lot of smaller and newer products.

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So older episodes don't really line up with this one.

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October 12th to the 18th, counted the new way, comes to about 1.26 million against the

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756,000 reported then.

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The product level numbers are not affected.

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So with everything counted, TCG player did about 2.12 million this week on 15,425 units,

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up 47% on the week before.

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October 29th alone was about $600,000, 28% of the week.

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Star Trek, the set and its commander decks together, went from 25% of revenue to 46%.

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The Star Trek collector booster display by itself was about $524,000, a quarter of TCG players

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week on one product.

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The set and its commander decks, the set and its commander decks, were about $160,000

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on 1,247 units, up 40%, and the Star Trek collector booster display moved there too.

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70 sales from 29.

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And the week we skipped, October 19th to the 25th, TCG player did about 1.44 million,

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up 14%.

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Star Trek share went from 8% to 25, and Hasbro reported magics first $600,000,000, our editorial

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on that call has the rest if you missed it.

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The Star Trek play booster display got the same October 29th rush, 242 boxes that day,

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and 926 for the week, and its shelf still finished the week bigger than it started, about 783

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boxes listed on average against 587 the week before.

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The price kept sliding to about $126 a box, which is 40% under what 30 Star Trek playboosters

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cost at the $699 sticker.

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The Star Trek collector booster display meanwhile sits 15% over its pack price.

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One shelf emptied and the other one barely noticed.

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If you were stocking, play booster displays for release, you don't need to hurry.

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The Star Trek commander decks are the strange one.

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They still do after release in North America, and people bought them anyway.

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The Star Trek Commander deck case sold 354 from 32 units.

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The Star Trek Commander deck we are the Borg sold 480 from 80 units.

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Sellers answered with more listings and lower asking prices.

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The Star Trek Commander deck landing party, that shelf, grew from 367 units to 521, and its

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price fell 13%.

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The exception is the RER the Borg collectors edition from the same Star Trek Commander line,

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70 sold, and the price held flat at about $204.

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And its the tightest shelf on all of TCG player.

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So unless that's the Star Trek deck you want, I'd like the asking prices keep coming down

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for you.

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Last time I asked whether the delayed reality fracture secret layer bundle stock would

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drag the price toward its $8.99.

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The stock showed up, sellers won from 15 to 78, and the price came down about 15% to $145.

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That's still 61% over sticker with 78 sellers setting it.

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So the premium is real, at least until Wizards own Chaos Vault Order start shipping November

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19th.

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The reality fracture collector booster display broke the $417 floor.

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I asked about it and its low-ask is $357 now, but one order on October 30 took 72 reality

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fracture collector booster displays at 350, which is a fifth of its week.

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Same thing on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Commander deck turtle power, it's the top

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to Cliner, down 21%, and 95 of its 226 sales were one cart at 37.99.

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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles power, shelf behind that order got more expensive, with

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the median ass going from $60 to $65.

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And I was wrong about Tramposaurus Rex.

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I told you the Foundations Commander refill would pull it down, two weeks later the Commander

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deck, Tramposaurus Rex is still double its 29.99 sticker on a flat shelf.

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The other two Foundations Commander decks gave back a little.

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Rex did not, and I'd stop waiting for it too.

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Next week, Star Trek pre-relius event start November 6th, and I want to see whether the Star

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Trek collector booster display holds $565.

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Then on November 9th, Wizards opens set phasers to Super Drop, the Star Trek layer drops

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4 days before the November 13th release.

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That's Star Trek money that could go somewhere other than sealed, and I'll be watching

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whether the Star Trek Playbooster display shelf finally starts to shrink.

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Thanks for listening, and I'll see you after pre-release weekend.

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